ruby: patch checkpoint restore with garnet

Due to recent changes to clocking system in Ruby and the way Ruby restores
state from a checkpoint, garnet was failing to run from a checkpointed state.
The problem is that Ruby resets the time to zero while warming up the caches.
If any component records a local copy of the time (read calls curCycle())
before the simulation has started, then that component will not operate until
that time is reached. In the context of this particular patch, the Garnet
Network class calls curCycle() at multiple places. Any non-operational
component can block in requests in the memory system, which the system
interprets as a deadlock. This patch makes changes so that Garnet can
successfully run from checkpointed state.

It adds a globally visible time at which the actual execution started. This
time is initialized in RubySystem::startup() function. This variable is only
meant for components with in Ruby. This replaces the private variable that
was maintained within Garnet since it is not possible to figure out the
correct time when the value of this variable can be set.

The patch also does away with all cases where curCycle() is called with in
some Ruby component before the system has actually started executing. This
is required due to the quirky manner in which ruby restores from a checkpoint.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/common/Global.hh b/src/mem/ruby/common/Global.hh
index 671f423f0..8282f5b01 100644
--- a/src/mem/ruby/common/Global.hh
+++ b/src/mem/ruby/common/Global.hh
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "base/str.hh"
+#include "base/types.hh"
 
 class RubySystem;
 extern RubySystem* g_system_ptr;
@@ -40,5 +41,9 @@ extern RubySystem* g_system_ptr;
 class AbstractController;
 extern std::vector<std::map<uint32_t, AbstractController *> > g_abs_controls;
 
+// A globally visible time at which the actual execution started. Meant only
+// for components with in Ruby. Initialized in RubySystem::startup().
+extern Cycles g_ruby_start;
+
 #endif // __MEM_RUBY_COMMON_GLOBAL_HH__